On the morning of September 15, 2017, John Robert Lacy, a 44-year-old Black / African American man, was walking near Chicago Avenue South and Franklin Avenue East in south Minneapolis shortly after 7 a.m. Surveillance footage shows a car pull up behind him as he walked by Peavey Park; a man exited the vehicle, approached from behind and shot Lacy in the back of the head. He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center and pronounced dead less than an hour later. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators treated the killing as targeted rather than random. They identified 33-year-old Tescil Romalis Mason-Kimmons as the prime suspect, noting a long-simmering feud between him and Lacy and an alleged stabbing of Lacy by Mason-Kimmons at the same intersection three days earlier. A recorded jail phone call after that arrest allegedly contained a threat to kill Lacy once released. Two days after his release, the shooting occurred; police executing a search warrant at Mason-Kimmons’s home recovered a revolver similar to the one used. Mason-Kimmons was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, and 29-year-old Elana R. Danowit was charged as the alleged getaway driver. In August 2018 Mason-Kimmons pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder.

Did anyone who knew John Lacy or who was in that neighborhood that week see anything that could help clarify what led to this execution-style attack?